Ooops! No hostage situation here! Just a drill! Take down those pics, PD

At about 8:30 this morning, Cleveland.com (The Plain Dealer's website) posted a pic of SWAT team members outside a building at Notre Dame College in suburban Cleveland. The accompanying article said someone had shot a person and was holding other people hostage in a dorm.

Then the article was gone.

Now it turns out police were simply staging a drill and didn't tell anyone. Original article and pic scrubbed from the site.
http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2008/12/police_use_notre_dame_college.html

PD follow-up article on the site stated that the police did not tell anyone they were holding a drill. That turns out to be untrue as well, as it was posted on the college's online calendar and local residents received automated phone calls a week ago notifying them of the event.

Now the part blaming police for not telling anyone ahead of time has also been scrubbed.

PD follow-up article on the site stated that the police did not tell anyone they were holding a drill. That turns out to be untrue as well, as it was posted on the college's online calendar and local residents received automated phone calls a week ago notifying them of the event.

Now the part blaming police for not telling anyone ahead of time has also been scrubbed.